Advanced Cyber/IO – Page 261 – Public Intelligence Blog

ABSTRACT: The Information Revolution combined with connective technologies creates a unique global social network. This network is vulnerable to cascades of information, norms, and coordinated action. The inherent unpredictability of the information society demands new kinds of governance that focus on rapid network-coordinated response over centralized predictive planning.

CORE QUOTE: “Power, as the capacity to impose behavior, lies in the networks of information exchange and symbol manipulation, which relate social actors, institutions, and cultural movements.” Citing M. Castells, End of Millenium (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), p. 379.

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2006/08/132011/01/30

Graphic: Four Threat Classes

Advanced Cyber/IO, Threats

JFCOM Four Threat Classes — Click on Image to Enlarge

Created in the mid-1990's on the basis of 1988 insights, this slide remains the fundamental depiction of the four threat classes that demand we train, equip, and organized four forces after next, not one.

2006/08/132010/12/25

Graphic: Holistic Analysis

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Strategy-Holistic Coherence

Hard to believe, but the U.S. Intelligence Community still does not do holistic analysis, in part because most of what the U.S. Government actually needs in the way of decision-support is not secret and has nothing to do with really expensive improbable threats.

ANY factor can be put in the center–the point is that ALL factors must be analyzed at ALL times.

As with all graphics this remains the intellectual property of Robert Steele.

2006/08/132010/12/25

Graphic: OSINT Marketplace

Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Strategy-Holistic Coherence

The OSINT Marketplace will not fully develop until we constrain the corruption within the military-intelligence-industrial complex that substitutes “butts in seats” with clearances and precioius little else to offer, for tangible substance that can be easily shared across all boundaries. Butts in seats are a waste of time-energy. We must also stop paying more than once for anything, which requires a coherent requirements system, harmonzied contracting–we cannot even get one agency to have one OSINT contracting officer uber alles–and an OSINT “cloud” repositiory.

2006/08/132010/12/25

Graphic: OSINT Multinational Information Operations

Advanced Cyber/IO, Multinational Plus

This slide, originally created for THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE was morphed to address needs in a briefing to the Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) in Tampa within the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM). This remains the core time-energy slide for harnessing the distributed intelligence of the Whole Earth leveraging multinational multifunctional information-sharing and sense-making agreements.

2004/08/132010/12/25

Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept

Advanced Cyber/IO, ICT-IT

Fairly straight-forward. All it requires is integrity, intelligence, and imagination.

Graphic: Expeditionary Environment Analytic Model

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis

This is the highest level depiction of the Expeditionary Environment analytic model created by the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (MCIC) on the basis of Robert Steele's first graduate thesis on the remediation of revolution across multiple dimensions. With deep help from the Warfighting Center, this model ultimately defined 144 mission area factors, and in warfighter terms, three to five degrees of difficulty for each of those factors. To the best of our knowledge, no such model exists within the U.S. Intelligence Community, nor is this model still in use at MCIA.

Category: Advanced Cyber/IO

Reference: 21st Century Governance as a Complex Adaptive System

Graphic: Four Threat Classes

Graphic: Holistic Analysis

Graphic: OSINT Marketplace

Graphic: OSINT Multinational Information Operations

Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept

Graphic: Expeditionary Environment Analytic Model